From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T10:47:13+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jeff Wood wrote:
>
>> I would do
>> 
>> a = Hash.new { || [] }
>
> I believe that's the first empty || I've ever seen.  It's awfully
> confusing (my first reaction was: *what* or an empty array? :-)  I'd
> strongly encourage you to eschew that construct.  It's deservedly
> unheard of :-)

i must confess i love it!  probably won't use it much.  but i love it.

-a
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